I Refuse to Let Life Crush Me

Posted on by November 23, 2024

People are reeling at the chaos created by recent events! We have to manage our minds better!

“Hey,” she exclaimed, “A wave!” He replied, “Yah! Let’s surf it!”  -  © Lyon 2024

Being with people recently, whether live or on social media, feels like being in an emotional washing machine, tossed around like a piece of old worn out lint.

I refuse to be smashed!
I shall remain calm.
I shall remain focused on creating beautiful art.
I rise above the fear.
I shall remain grounded.
I open my arms to love, joy and sanity.

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LOOKING BACK JUST MAKES YOU YEARN, ACHING and DEPRESSED

Posted on by November 9, 2024

Listening to Shanna spout crap like that made my belly churn. What the heck was she thinking??? But suddenly, she went into this kind of glassy-eyed trance . . .

Raccoons playing with their fishie friends in the waterfall – © Angela Treat Lyon 2023

Shanna came back over today to tell me she was so grateful to me for stopping her panic attack yesterday. And, all excited, told me about the ideas she was going to follow up on.

But suddenly, she went into this kind of glassy-eyed trance, and started reminiscing about how she had loved living in Hawaii ‘back then’ (in truth, she had hated it and could never stop talking about ‘getting outta here’) and how her life was better then (it definitely was not!) . . .

After a minute or two of this, I waved my hands around like a crazy person, interrupting her monotone. Listening to her spout crap like that made my belly churn. What the heck was she thinking???

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STOP WASTING YOUR ENERGY!

Posted on by November 7, 2024

My neighbor Shanna came over, crying, utterly bereft about the election.

I told her to put her big-girl panties back on and quit indulging in weeping and wailing and moaning and being angry and sad, moping around like a victim, wasting her energy

Use your golden energy to effect change! Art © Angela Treat Lyon 2024

She yelled at me.

I don’t do well with being yelled at.

So I got in her face, and shoved a piece of paper at her.

Told her, “On the left side, write down 10 things you’re afraid will change, go away, or be worse, now that the present group is in the WH.”

I made her sit down and do it right then!

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LET ME HOLD YOU UNTIL YOU FEEL BETTER

Posted on by October 31, 2024

If only I had the means to comfort everyone!

Let me hold you

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had someone whose arms you could just fall into, snuggle up against them and revel in the comfort of their Being?

No need for crying, no complaining, no woes  -  just a nice, warm hey-I-love-you-let’s-hug kinda thing.

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Ferny Fern Fern, I Love You

Posted on by October 30, 2024

I used to go out into my yard in Hawaii, sit in my favorite chair, and hold hands with my ferns. They loved it (they told me so!) and I loved it. I miss that.

Ferns in my garden. Original art © Angela Treat Lyon 2024

Where I live now, I go outside and there’s no place to even put a chair, or sit with the sun, never mind any plants. Wah!

But that’s OK  -  I get to draw my garden! In my head (and thousands of file folders) I have scads of plants and flowers and bees and buttyflies and ladyishbugs and wind and rain and happy-nesses.

And I make designs for silk scarves that I can wear to help me remember how it felt.
And that other people can wear to help them feel connected to the earth, under the blue sky and milky moon.

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WHERE DID MY ENERGY GO???

Posted on by October 25, 2024

I’m used to being one of those annoying full-of-juice, c’mon-let’s-go people who get everyone else motivated and moving and having way too much fun as we make waves in the world with our artful creations.

Orchids of a different feather

So now it surprises the shit out of me when sometimes I feel like I’ve been rolled over by a semi truck, and can’t even get up out of bed, much less open my eyes or lift a finger.

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MY MACHO NACHOS (& CHIPS)

Posted on by October 23, 2024

Some of us, who are perfect in every other possible way (ahem!), have a terrible, dark secret.

I loves my chips!

That secret, if known, would probably make everyone on the planet shun, condemn, and make fun of us! We might even be deleted from existence if it was known!

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SELFIE BEAR

Posted on by October 13, 2024

Having a basically shy nature, it’s beyond me how people are so obsessed with making selfies.

Selfie Bear looks for just the right angle

I just don’t get it. Why would anyone want to plaster themselves all over a world-wide platform? Can you tell me?

I’m thinking in particular about one video posted by a gal who filmed herself all gussied up, slamming out of her car, violently twerking her way into her ex-BF’s workplace, hoping (I think) to get him back into her arms – only to find said guy gone.

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I MISS MY DOG

Posted on by October 13, 2024

Back in the 90s, I lived in two of the bays of an old abandoned fire house, where the town fire trucks had been kept.

Playing with My Buddies

There was a big parking lot out front. At the beginnings of our daily walks out into the desert, my dog IO (pron. Ee-oh) would come out into the lot and run big circles around me, round and round, with a huge shit-eating grin on her face.

Before that, we lived in the Winch House south of town.

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PLANT ENERGY

Posted on by October 9, 2024

I’ve studied healing plants for years, and have always wanted to honor them somehow – the ones I have used always did such wonders for me and my family.

False Hellebore, False Solomon’s Seal, Ginseng

So I’m working on creating a series of designs featuring plants used for healing. Each one of them has specific properties that help with various different types of pain or illness.

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DON’T GO CRAZY – JUST DRAW!

Posted on by October 7, 2024

There are some days when things in life seem so shitty that I can’t get my mind bent around a single thing – except drawing. Drawing is my life-saver.

Salmon playing in the waves

Today was one of those days. I’ve been completely occupied with the travesty happening in North Carolina - I got totally sucked in.

I try to not do that if possible, so I avoid as best I can all the news and shows that drain your energy like vampires.

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I Was Surprised by My Own Artwork

Posted on by October 5, 2024

I’m so used to creating bold designs using bright colors that I forget the there are people who prefer more quiet beauty.

Violets repeat design, in coral-ly pink

I was doing the primary design of this piece, all full of really bright colors and bold strokes. The app I use to draw on only has a few basic colors, so I’m kinda stuck using them. After I have completed the original drawing, I import it into photoshop to modify it.

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BIRDIES LOVE CHERRIES

Posted on by October 5, 2024

Every year, hundreds of birds would swoop down and eat all the cherries on our trees, whether they were ripe or not.

Birdies, Snails, and Wormies all loved the cherries

We finally trimmed the branches of the trees so it would be shorter, and much easier to put birdie-proof nets over them the next year.

Success! We got full crops from then on, and the birdies had to make do with the ones that dropped to the ground. Oh darn so sorry, not sorry!

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THE BUNNY & THE TORTOISE Give Up the Race and Have a Party Instead

Posted on by September 15, 2024

There are days I’m so full of ideas and images they feel like popcorn popping and bursting and trying to get out of my noggin.

The Bunny & the Tortoise Give Up the Race and Have a Party Instead

Let’s stop running and have a party and invite all our friends and eat all the cherries!

Today was one of those days.

Usually, before I open my eyes to fully wake up, I spend a bit of time appreciating what I’m most grateful for, and then going over my basic plans for the day.

Today that wasn’t possible. I had so many images rushing through my mind that I thought it would crack my skull. So many critters and scenes and colors and ideas!

It was so intense it was ecstatic.

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GARDEN FEAST

Posted on by September 13, 2024

My ma had the most awesome organic garden. She had every veggie known to man and some we had no clue what they were.

Despite it being the source of so much deliciousness, we kids hated that garden, because we had to go out and weed it every weekend.

It was only when I finally had a garden of my own, when we lived way out in the hills of northern California, that I really appreciated having gown up with such bounty. Or how much more work it was than Ma’s garden! Hers was small – ours was a full acre!

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NASTURTIUMS: MY SAVIORS

Posted on by September 13, 2024

The Park Fire here in northern California tried to snake its fiery fingers right into my world, coming within three miles of my house. It freaked the living daylights out of me, relentlessly debilitating me for a whole month.

The fire is still raging, many miles to the north, over 450,000 scares burnt, lives cut short, homes and businesses destroyed beyond repair. It’s too devastating to think about how close it came.

My neighborhood was on a on-your-toes evacuation alert for a seemingly endless two weeks. We didn’t know up from down – whether to go, stay, eat, sleep, go to work, escape to out-of-town relatives . . .

I was dumbfounded how completely the aura of fear and chaos saturated every aspect of my life. I even kept my phone by me 24/7 – which I never, ever do – staying on top of the alerts.

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I HAD A DREAM ABOUT YOU, JENNY S.!

Posted on by September 9, 2024

As I drove down an obscure, insanely rough, red-dirt road in Baja, I came around a corner, there on my right suddenly reared up an enormous storm-grey rock, as big as a two-story house.

What is that doing there?!? I slammed on the brakes. I had to check this out. As I looked closer, I could see that it was indeed a house! Windows peppered the sides of the stone, their glass glinting in the sun.

The palm trees swayed and shissssed, and gulls swirled around the top of the rock, way high up in the air.

And there, sitting in the shade of its overhang on a ledge above me, surrounded by three huge dogs whose coats shine like silver and gold in the sun, you sat untangling and folding a pile of a little kid’s onesies.

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FISHY LOBSTER FEAST

Posted on by August 30, 2024

Today we had 101 degree heat. I melt at such high temps.

My mind disappears into the deepest crack in the sea, and try as I might to sit up and work, my body refuses to function.

Just about all I can do is turn on the AC and get horizontal until the house has cooled enough for me to be human again.

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MICE JUMPING and PLAYING IN THE RAIN JUST FOR FUN

Posted on by August 28, 2024

When I was a kid, I loved running out in the spring rain, jumping in puddles and splashing until I was soaking wet drenched, head to foot.

Now, of course, I’m staid and demure, like a proper old lady should be. Hahahahahahahaha! Go on – believe that if ya want!!!!

I just posted this purple version in my Redbubble shop – I’m including the links below if you want to get some fun socks, tote bags, shower curtains, pillows, blankies – all with this design!

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HOT! HOT! HOT! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!

Posted on by August 28, 2024

Do you like hot, spicy foods?

I do, but my body? Not so much! Instant reactions!

So here we are, eating our favorite east Indian dinner – and then – Ooooooh!!! Hotttt!!!! Yeowie! Yikes! Whew! Hand me the napkins!

Wouldn’t a silk scarf of this be funny? You could wear it out to dinner with your friends when you go to India Cuisine and get Garam Masala, or when you go to the Thai Noodles restaurant!
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Hot! Hot! Hot!
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HUMMERS & BEES MAKE ME WEAK IN THE KNEES!

Posted on by August 28, 2024

I have this Thing for Hummingbirds.

I think they are some of the most miraculous beings on the planet. Imagine having to suck multiple times your body weight in liquid food through a long skinny pipe every day!

And being able to look in the mirror to see all those flashy bright colors on your head and chest!

My mother’s mother was the first to photograph them flying backwards – or, that’s the Family Story, anyway. She had hundreds of photos of them. All in black and white, of course.

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CATS X 3

Posted on by August 28, 2024

In a kind of odd moment as I sat glomping my lunch a couple days ago, I looked out my window to see my neighbor’s cats sunning themselves on the window sill, and they just looked so happy.

Have you ever wished you had your own safe windowsill where you could relax and be totally unbothered, and you were able to just lie there peacefully in the sun? I sure have.

Here is the same image, painted in different colors. I’m planning to make stickers of the cats, and silk scarves of the entire image. Stay tuned – I’m in the process of opening a store so it’ll be easy to get what you want, lickety-split!
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Cats x 3
© Angela Treat Lyon 2024

GENTLE REMINDER: YOU ARE UNIQUE!

Posted on by August 28, 2024
No one else can possibly do what you do.
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They may do something similar, but what you do has your breath within it, has your dreams behind it, and has your signature energy inside it.
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There are days when I wonder, myself, why do I do what I do?
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And then the Voice inside my mind says, “Angela, you have a mission, and no one else can do what you do, how you do it. Each thing you do is meant to be seen by specific people – even if it’s 900 years from now. So stop it with the self-pity and just go have fun making cool stuff. No one can even imitate what you do. So get to it!”
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Well. OK then.
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You Are Unique!
© Angela Treat Lyon 2024

WHY AREN’T THEY BITING?

Posted on by August 28, 2024

My newest scarf! It’s 26″ square, rich colors on a lovely pure silk charmeuse – I love it!

A friend told me about how he’d gone fishing, and actually watched as the fish gathered around his hook and bait and, laughing all the way to town, didn’t bite all day! He never could figure out why they did that, because the next day they took the bait like crazy. How weird is that! So this is to celebrate the no-bite day!

Let me know if you’d like one of these!
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Fish Bait
© Angela Treat Lyon 2024

JUST ONE CAT? NEVER!!!

Posted on by August 28, 2024
I just got this sample in the mail – it’s a 12″ square kind of plaque thing.
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It’s printed on a 1/8″ board, has a satin mat finish, wonderful rich color – and a twiney thing to hang it with! I’m thinking this would make a cool Christmas gift, yes? Want one? Contact me (see contact page HERE)!
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© Angela Treat Lyon 2024

SAFETY EVEN AS THE STORM RAGES

Posted on by August 28, 2024

Very smoky here today – hard to see or breathe. Not fun at all.

This image is how I feel about you. I’m so fortunate to have your loving support. It’s been such an emotional rolly-coasty this week!

Huge gratitude for all of you who are envisioning me safe – I really appreciate that – it’s very precious, indeed. I have felt vulnerable before, but never like I have this past week.

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